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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Access

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ehcache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFairCom CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release2023200919791992
Current release1.0, March 20233.10.0, March 2022V3, October 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJCacheADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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